ANSON, GEORGE. 1697-1762. A Voyage Round the World, in the Years MDCCXL, I, II, III, IV. London: John & Paul Knapton for the author, 1748.
4to (290 x 216 mm). List of subscribers, 42 engraved plates, charts, plans and maps, all but one folding, directions to bookbinder leaf at end. Contemporary red morocco, gilt by John Brindley, sides with wide borders composed of foliate and ornithological gilt tooling and blue morocco onlays, the spine similarly gilt in 7 compartments, green morocco lettering piece, gilt dentelles and edges, extremities of spine and lettering-piece renewed.
Provenance: Sir William Abdy, Baronet (large paper subscriber, armorial bookplate); Lord Stanley of Alderley (armorial bookplate); John Roland Abbey (armorial bookplate); Marlborough Rare Books, London, July 28, 1970, catalogue 65, item 93, £350; Lord Wardington, sold his sale, The Wardington Library: Important atlases & geographies: Part one, A-K, Sotheby's, London, October 18, 2005, lot 14; Property from a New England Collector.
A VERY FINE LARGE-PAPER SUBSCRIBER'S COPY IN A SUPERB BINDING BY JOHN BRINDLEY, WITH DISTINGUISHED PROVENANCE, the first issue from the library of John Roland Abbey, and more recently from the Wardington Library. "A MASTERPIECE OF DESCRIPTIVE TRAVEL. Anson's voyage appears to have been the most popular book of maritime adventure of the eighteenth century" (Hill). The first official account of Anson's circumnavigation, edited from Anson's "papers and materials" by Richard Walter, the Expedition's chaplain. "The book was both a stirring story of adventures at sea and an exhortation to further Pacific enterprise" (Glyn Williams, The Prize of All the Oceans. The Triumphs and Tragedy of Anson's Voyage, 1999). A LARGE PAPER COPY, significantly larger than the regular quarto edition, IN A SUPERB BINDING BY JOHN BRINDLEY, bookbinder to Frederick, Prince of Wales and Queen Caroline. Hill, pp. 317-18; Sabin 1625.
ANSON, GEORGE. 1697-1762. A Voyage Round the World, in the Years MDCCXL, I, II, III, IV. London: John & Paul Knapton for the author, 1748.
4to (290 x 216 mm). List of subscribers, 42 engraved plates, charts, plans and maps, all but one folding, directions to bookbinder leaf at end. Contemporary red morocco, gilt by John Brindley, sides with wide borders composed of foliate and ornithological gilt tooling and blue morocco onlays, the spine similarly gilt in 7 compartments, green morocco lettering piece, gilt dentelles and edges, extremities of spine and lettering-piece renewed.
Provenance: Sir William Abdy, Baronet (large paper subscriber, armorial bookplate); Lord Stanley of Alderley (armorial bookplate); John Roland Abbey (armorial bookplate); Marlborough Rare Books, London, July 28, 1970, catalogue 65, item 93, £350; Lord Wardington, sold his sale, The Wardington Library: Important atlases & geographies: Part one, A-K, Sotheby's, London, October 18, 2005, lot 14; Property from a New England Collector.
A VERY FINE LARGE-PAPER SUBSCRIBER'S COPY IN A SUPERB BINDING BY JOHN BRINDLEY, WITH DISTINGUISHED PROVENANCE, the first issue from the library of John Roland Abbey, and more recently from the Wardington Library. "A MASTERPIECE OF DESCRIPTIVE TRAVEL. Anson's voyage appears to have been the most popular book of maritime adventure of the eighteenth century" (Hill). The first official account of Anson's circumnavigation, edited from Anson's "papers and materials" by Richard Walter, the Expedition's chaplain. "The book was both a stirring story of adventures at sea and an exhortation to further Pacific enterprise" (Glyn Williams, The Prize of All the Oceans. The Triumphs and Tragedy of Anson's Voyage, 1999). A LARGE PAPER COPY, significantly larger than the regular quarto edition, IN A SUPERB BINDING BY JOHN BRINDLEY, bookbinder to Frederick, Prince of Wales and Queen Caroline. Hill, pp. 317-18; Sabin 1625.
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